• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

USA RECALL

What's with all the lawyer talk? If you don't want the bike any more just sell it and go buy something you do want.
 
WayneC said:
The info on the adaption resets is in the early threads here but then the knowledge was lost, it is interesting in the new G65GS recall TSB that BMW are specifying not only that the engine should be cold at the start of the process but that the Dealer should allow the fan to cycle on/off twice. There is more in it worth reading
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Got a chance to try the BMW idle till the fan cycles twice. On restart afterward it did not stall when blipped.
Go figure.......
 
At this point in the game a 'buy-back' is really the only option as I see it. KTMs reluctance to buy the necessary equipment from BMW to do the fix to our Huskys is only the tip of the iceberg as far as continued ownership goes.

BMW dealers are not working on the Huskys and KTM dealers aren't either due to their lack of the proper BMW proprietary equipment. Any fix done by KTM for the recall will be a one time event. If no options are available to service our bikes after the recall then a buy-back would still be necessary.

I seriously doubt KTM is planning on purchasing the equipment from BMW and sending it out to dealers to service our bikes.

The only other option I see as viable would be for KTM to pay BMW to service the re-badged BMW/Husky models through their BMW dealer network.

Short of a buy-back from KTM, I think the BMW service plan is the only other viable alternative to me as a consumer. KTM has requirements as to how long parts are offered and service. So far KTM has offered no service for the BMW/Husky models.
 
From the potential Australian recall thread:

Some news that is finally in black and white - well grey and off white!

Husky have been working with Magnetti Morelli the ECU manufacturer to resolve the stalling issue.

- subject to official factory approval - there will be a recall release at the start of April - not sure if this is worldwide or just Australia at this stage.

The update will be Husky mapping - depending on how well this is set up with the current dealers it may be good but also may be bad. Basically they have taken BMW out of the equation.

Stay safe 8-)
 
It's been about a year since the recall went live with NHSA...

I recently emailed KTM/Husky and they say "... this matter is a high priority for Husqvarna and we are actively working on a resolution alongside the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and hope to roll out a repair very soon."
 
I'm starting to turn blue from holding my breath. I would really like to ditch the work-a-rounds that enable me to use mine, but I worry that the overall rich condition is going to cause problems with the valves, etc. if it's not corrected soon.
 
I just received an update from KTM:

"At this time the recall has not yet been released. However, we are hearing it is nearing completion and is expected shortly. When the recall Is released you will receive letters at your mailing address explaining next steps."
 
nwrider1 said:
I just received an update from KTM:

"At this time the recall has not yet been released. However, we are hearing it is nearing completion and is expected shortly. When the recall Is released you will receive letters at your mailing address explaining next steps."
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Good to hear.
On 4/10/17 I had got this response, which was not very positive at all.

"Husqvarna engineers continue to work toward a resolution.
At this time a resolution has not been released nor is there an expected release date.
When the recall is released you will receive a letter at the mailing address you provided"
 
The fix is in. I just received my recall letter. The bike has to go to a Husky dealer, they will pull the ecu, send the ecu to Magnetti Marrelli, M/M will reprogram the ecu and send it back to the dealer who will reinstall the ecu and run the relearn diagnostics on the bike.

Anyone have any experience with Central KY Motorsports? They're my closest Husky dealer. Located in Lexington.
 
I really hope this is real. I could not even get KTM to send me a recall letter. And I'm like you, a long way from a Husky dealer.
 
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